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100 | _aKesarwani Sulekha | ||
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_aAbortion in India : _bGround Realities / _cSulekha Kesarwani, |
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_a1st ed. _b2014. |
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_aNew Delhi, _bPearl Books; _c2014. |
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_a270 p . ; _bhardbound _c14x22cm |
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505 | _a1. The Indian and the world view of abortion 2. India's population : problem and policy 3. India's abortion law 4. India's Abortion experience 5.The Legalization of abortion 6. The medical termination of pregnancy Act, 2003 7. Approaching Abortion anw 8. Finding abortion rights in the constitution 9. The politics of abortion 10. Major dimensions of abortion policy | ||
520 | _aIn the west, the argument was that women did not need to be educated. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw the emergence of a number of outstanding social reformers. But it was Mahatma Gandhi who brought about the first real and nation-wide wave of emancipation through his mass mobilization of women into the freedom movement.Unusually for his time, he believed that India's economic and moral salvation lay in women's hand. He condemned the traditions of child marriage, female seclusion, dowry, enforced widowhood, and the lack of education that had shackled Indian women for so long. | ||
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